22 Jun 2026
Paul Hastings LLP Deepens Private Equity Platform in New York with Partner Brian C. Miner
"Paul Hastings LLP has hired Brian C. Miner as a partner in New York to strengthen its private equity and M&A/investment funds practice."
Joining from Dechert, Miner advises private equity firms on a range of domestic and international transactions. He works across sectors including asset management, insurance, life sciences and healthcare, and energy and manufacturing. His practice encompasses acquisitions and dispositions of interests in asset management firms and financial institutions and the structuring, negotiation and execution of GP stakes and other minority and control investments in private equity and other asset managers. He joins Paul Hastings as a partner; he was previously at Dechert.
Miner’s clients have included Lovell Minnick, Industry Ventures, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, LLR Partners, Warner Pacific Insurance Services, Newport Specialty Partners, APCO Holdings, Scientific Games and Suede (formerly Merchant Industry). Representative matters cited include representing Industry Ventures in its minority GP stake investment from Petershill and subsequent sale to Goldman Sachs for up to $965 million; HPS Investment Partners in its minority GP stake investment from Blue Owl Capital; and Lovell Minnick in the formation of Newport Specialty Partners and its growth investment in Complex Coverage, Inc.
Miner is the eighth private equity partner to join Paul Hastings in the past eight months across New York, Boston and London, continuing a broader strategic expansion that has added more than 25 partners to the firm’s global private equity and M&A platform over the past two years and contributed to the firm’s recent league-table and market-share gains.